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Frog fetish. Black Mountain Ruin. (Swope collection.) Length 3½″.

These idols represent frogs, bears, mountain lions, and other quadrupeds, and have much the same form as those from ancient ruins in Arizona. On the backs of several of these stone idols are incised figures, like arrowheads tied to Zuñi fetishes, or possibly rain-cloud figures.

Author

Archeology of the lower Mimbres valley, New Mexico
By Jesse Walter Fewkes
Published in 1914
Available from gutenberg.org

Posted on

Sunday 23 April 2023

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1065*326

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Art, Historic Artefact, Place:New Mexico, Prehistoric

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• Places / America / United States / Indigenous People

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